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Oliver Goldsmith was an Irish novelist, playwright, and poet, celebrated for works like "The Vicar of Wakefield" and "She Stoops to Conquer." His writing is known for its wit, warmth, and keen observations of society. He became an influential literary figure in 18th-century English literature. Here are 219 of his quotes:

When a person has no need to borrow they find multitudes willing to lend. (Oliver Goldsmith)
She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice, and trains up the other to virtue, is a much greater character than the ladies described in romance, whose whole occupation is to murder mankind with shafts from their. View quote
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When any one of our relations was found to be a person of a very bad character, a troublesome guest, or one we desired to get rid of, upon his leaving my house I ever took care to lend him a riding-coat, or a pair of boots, or sometimes a horse of small value, and I always had the satisfaction of finding he never came back to return them. View quote
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Take a dollar from a thousand and it will be a thousand no more. View quote
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Absence, like death, sets a seal on the image of those we love we cannot realize the intervening changes which time may have effected. View quote
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The weakest soul, within itself unblest, Leans for all pleasure on another's breast. View quote
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How wide the limits stand Between a splendid and an happy land. View quote
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Life has been compared to a race, but the allusion improves by observing, that the most swift are usually the least manageable and the most likely to stray from the course. Great abilities have always been less serviceable to the possessors than moderate ones. View quote
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Unequal combinations are always disadvantageous to the weaker side. View quote
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I can't say whether we had more wit among us now than usual, but I am certain we had more laughing, which answered the end as well. View quote
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The heart of every man lies open to the shafts of correction if the archer can take proper aim. (Oliver Goldsmith)
The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter. View quote
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Good counsel rejected returns to enrich the givers bosom. View quote
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Our chief comforts often produce our greatest anxieties, and the increase in our possessions is but an inlet to new disquietudes. View quote
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Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay. View quote
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As for murmurs, mother, we grumble a little now and then, to be sure. But there's no love lost between us. View quote
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We had no revolutions to fear, nor fatigues to undergo all our adventures were by the fireside, and all our migrations from the blue bed to the brown. View quote
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Fear guides more than gratitude. View quote
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The bashful virgin's sidelong looks of love. View quote
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Wisdom makes a slow defense against trouble, though a sure one in the end. View quote
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I do not love a man who is zealous for nothing. (Oliver Goldsmith)
Of all kinds of ambition, that which pursues poetical fame is the wildest. View quote
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Crime generally punishes itself. View quote
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Whenever you see a gaming table be sure to know fortune is not there. Rather she is always in the company of industry. View quote
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Like the bee, we should make our industry our amusement. View quote
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Oliver Goldsmith

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Occupation: Anglo-Irish Writer
Born: November 10, 1728
Died: April 4, 1774
Quotes count: 219
Wikipedia: Oliver Goldsmith

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